S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you Debbie Tomme for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored (in alphabetical order):

34%

43%

40%

81%

46%

37%

50%

96%

71%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am very practical and search for things to do to help get tasks accomplished.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel very strongly about giving and give to a variety of ministries.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy bible teaching because I learn more by preparing.

[H]eart

1. Helping others.

2. Serving in behind the scenes ways, I do not enjoy being in the limelight.

3. Giving money and things to meet the needs of others.

Children, birth through 1st or 2nd grade. Also women.

I enjoy working with women’s ministries, have planned women’s retreats in the past, and currently lead a women’s bible study for the past 10-12 years.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Parenting
Financial stewardship

[A]bilities

I am the Accounting and HR Manager for a law firm, working part-time. Have done admin work for law firms for the past 30 years.

Books of the bible, weight loss.

Loyalty and commitment to following through when I say I will.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Follower

Routine

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Beaver’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

[E]xperience

As a teenager, I gave my life to Christ, and was baptized by immersion in a Southern Baptist Church. Did not fully understand my decision until I was 18, when I was searching and visiting different kinds of churches. Settled in another Southern Baptist Church and decided to be re-baptized to proclaim my decision to follow Jesus. Have been growing in faith and knowledge since then.

1973-1976 Potomac Baptist Church, Sterling, VA – assisted my husband who was Minister of Youth and Music, taught Sunday School to 12-13 year old boys
1976-1981 Southcliff Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX – seminary wife, did admin work for seminary professor.
1981-1988 Capitol Hill Metropolitan Baptist Church, Washington, DC, pastor’s wife, active in women’s ministry and choir and Evangelism Explosion ministry, did admin/bookkeeping work for church child care center.

1988-1994 Tysons Community Church, helped plant a church with my husband who was the pastor. Served in any capacity to help grow the church, led discipleship groups, worked with children, admin work.
1994-2009 McLean Bible Church, worked with 3-year-olds and mentored women.

2009-current Cedar Run Community Church, worked in women’s ministry as women’s retreat coordinator, co-lead women’s bible study.
2014-current, help Horeb Ministries with admin/financial activities. This Is my daughter and son-in-law’s ministry in Guatemala. Have been on multiple mission trips to Guatemala to help with VBS, building projects, ministering to hurting people with physical and spiritual encouragement.

Being in Sunday school class with other seminary wives while in seminary, led by the pastor’s wife. Learned so much about ministry life.

Having progressively more managerial roles in my professional life. While I do not view myself as a leader, I have moved up to leadership roles.

Going through the Navigator’s 2:7 discipleship course made a huge impact on my life by helping me develop spiritual habits to help me grow.

I struggle with low self-esteem that has hindered me from reaching out to others when I should have, too self-focused.

Struggles in our marriage. Several times I felt like giving up, but so happy that we worked through our struggles to build our relationship to the strong bond we share today.

Going through some problems with our adult son who has made some mistakes.

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. Continue to lead bible study for women

4. Work with children to share God’s love

5. discipleship ministry